of grandiflora from comparing it with Prorga Scolymus, 
a much smaller, but somewhat related. species. 
Mr. Brown remarks that it sometimes varies with linear- 
oblong leaves, and is then hardly to be distinguished from 
Protea abyssinica, a species known to us only by the 
figure, and account of it in the appendix to Brucer’s travels. 
The Protea grandiflora is said to form a tree eight or ten 
feet high. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it was 
detected by Professor Tuunserc. Introduced to the Kew 
garden, by Mr. Francis Masson, in 1787. Our drawing 
was taken several years ago, by the late Mr. Sypennam 
Epwarps, at Knicur’s Exotic nursery in the King’s Road, 
not long after its first establishment, from a plant out of the 
collection of Grorcr Hiszert, Esq. Flowers in May and 
June. Requires to be kept in an airy greenhouse. 
